I didn't quite get the wrap right the way I wanted - there was a larger point I wanted to make about thinking about services and diversity of services that didn't quite work. Still, some good core messages in there.
- Cameron Neylon

"More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects -- 9,738 or 50.6 percent -- according to the 2011 State of Observed Species (SOS) report released Jan. 18 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University."
- Jan Wessnitzer

Fwd: "Scientific publication isn’t scholarship itself, but only the advertising of scholarship. The actual work -- the steps needed to reproduce the scientific finding -- must be shared". (via http://friendfeed.com/steelgr...)

"Polilov found that M.mymaripenne has one of the smallest nervous systems of any insect, consisting of just 7,400 neurons. For comparison, the common housefly has 340,000 and the honeybee has 850,000. And yet, with a hundred times fewer neurons, the wasp can fly, search for food, and find the right places to lay its eggs."
- Jan Wessnitzer